Is it too cold right now for trout? I figured they were a cold water, lazy fish. Also, what lures work best here?

[Johnsfolly]

On 11/29/2024 at 10:10 AM, BilletHead said:

                  Oh yea it was cold!   I remember one frigid jig fest and boats were frozen on trailers, frozen steering and throttle cables too. @Daryk Campbell Sr was out there! 

Yeah I was there for that one as well. Again the fishing was really good!

[Seth]

Thermometer read 4 degrees at take off for the Masters earlier this year. That's the coldest I've personally fished. I didn't think we were going to be able to fish it because it took my motor forever to start peeing. It actually got hot and shut down on me on our way up river that morning. We missed the first 45 minutes of fishing and missed the check line by 0.13lbs. I'm pretty confident that we would have placed had we not had to deal with that because all of our better quality fish came early that day.

I hate fishing when it's that cold. Staying warm isn't much of an issue but everyting wants to freeze up or freeze to something and it drives me nuts!